Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | US and allied governments stressed that the exact moment was unimportant as it was not a " trigger point " , but that military action might begin at any time they chose thereafter , unless Iraq had complied with the UN resolutions . |
| 2 | ‘ Blood can come at any time . ’ |
| 3 | Since delegation can occur at any time a basic question you the manager should regularly be asking yourself is : ‘ At this moment , am I making the best use of my time ? ’ |
| 4 | The core will stay for some time . |
| 5 | An election could come at any time , and policies across the board were being honed in readiness . |
| 6 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 7 | Consequently , without having to decide whether the right of registration is a retained power or whether the Community could legislate at any time in that field , it must be held that in exercising that competence the member states must comply with the general rules of the E.E.C . |
| 8 | Although in theory the organism could reproduce at any time during its growth phase , we can expect that eventually an optimum time for reproduction would emerge . |
| 9 | Essentially , the vulnerable times are the beginning and end of each journey , although danger can strike at any time . |
| 10 | Some people live with a more or less permanent anxiety that this shattering event could happen at any time . |
| 11 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 12 | The pipeline from Petrobras passes beneath the houses ; an explosion could occur at any time . |
| 13 | The reality of AIDS is that the person can die at any time . |
| 14 | The landlord can opt at any time without consulting the tenant . |
| 15 | Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first . |
| 16 | The student could leave at any time he wished and take up unqualified practice , usually permanently , but sometimes temporarily . |
| 17 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 18 | Where the debtor accepts an offer made to him , a special notification of the right to cancel must be given to him and the debtor can cancel at any time up to five days from receipt of that notification ( s68(a) ) . |
| 19 | Even if he is able to negotiate a minimum fixed term before the landlord 's power to break can be exercised , once that period has expired a notice can come at any time . |
| 20 | Food allergy generally begins in childhood , while food intolerance can begin at any time of life . |
| 21 | She said Copper had a 50:50 chance but that his leg may break at any time , not to mention all the problems that come with keeping a horse standing up and not moving for what could be months rather than weeks . |
| 22 | There is no tidal limitation and a lifeboat could respond at any time day or night . |
| 23 | ‘ Lot can happen in that time , Laura . |
| 24 | She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time . |
| 25 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 26 | By necessity changes will take many years to enact a , id consequently the present system will prevail for some time . |
| 27 | All records on the existing Altos minicomputer system will have by that time been transferred to users ’ PCs and it will become surplus to requirements . |
| 28 | Relapse can occur at any time . |
| 29 | The last Scotsman to score against the French giants has warned Hateley to watch out , however , because the knock-out blow can come at any time . |
| 30 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |